Courtney Barnett Quotes
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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Hold fast to youth and beauty.
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Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
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Mrs Prentice: My uterine contractions have been bogus for some time!Prentice: What a discovery! Married to the mistress of the fraudulent climax.
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An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
